And outside of washington. With that id like to bring up secretary again to talk with all of you about the big announcement he made this morning about historic modernization of the va medical record system and as a reminder, as always, i would encourage you to please be respectful and keep your questions on the topic at hand and i will be happy to answer questions on other topics after words. Thank you, sarah. Im glad to be here today. As sarah said earlier today, i made the announcement about the department of veteran Affairs Decision on the Electronic Health records. Normally, that is not too exciting decision about a product but i have to tell you im very excited about this. I think this will make a big difference for veterans everywhere and it will make a big difference for the department of veteran affairs. I want to say from the outside that when the president selected me to be secretary, he made clear to me that he expected us to act with faster decisions, act like a business an
Is now my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you the president of the United States of america, president donald trump. [applause] [applause] thank you very much. Thank you, mike. I really appreciate everything and i appreciate you being here but i especially want to thank secretary elaine chao, leader kevin mccarthy, thank you, kevin. Chairman bill shuster, thank you very much, bill, and all the members of congress, many of them here today, for joining us as we prepare to enter a great new era in american aviation. [applause] its about time too, i can tell you. But before discussing our plans to modernize air travel, i want to provide an update on our efforts to fix and modernize Vital Services for our veterans, our great, great veterans, who we all love. For decades the federal government has struggled to accomplish something that should be very, very simple, seamlessly transferring a veterans medical records from the Defense Department to the veterans groups and to th
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